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Wasn’t global warming meant to be the big threat to ski resorts? Turns out a greater danger is hatred of George W. Bush:
A backlash quickly emerged after the Telluride Town Council adopted a resolution last week calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
“It’s huge, unbelievable,” said Telluride Mayor John Pryor. “Ski groups are canceling for the winter. Hundreds of people are bailing. The (town) Web site is flooded with people saying they’re canceling their vacations here.”
#1 - Headline: BUTTONHOLERS BUTTHOLED.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 07 26 at 06:16 AM • permalinkAt the bottom of the artcle it mentions Winter Park. A great place for a brash young Aussie backpacker to spend a week on the slopes.
The youth hostel was a collection of converted old buses organised by nationality of the visitors (the only bad part was the Aussie’s bus wasdownwindnext door to the Kiwis). Across the road was a mexican restaurant with a happy hour every day offering tacos and margueritas for a dollar each.
The place was overun with cute little Aussie illegals working through winter, happy tohavesee a young lad a long way from home.....glory days.Reminds me of two-bit pollies like Wayne Berry of the ACT signing an invitation to Hugo Chavez to visit Australia.
This is the “Dixie Chick Effect” in action?
Posted by Steve at the pub on 2007 07 26 at 06:50 AM • permalinkDOn’t panic people - they got two moonbats to come and ski there! That should be compensation enough for the hundreds of cancellations.
Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 07 26 at 06:58 AM • permalinkNext up in the MSM: A flood of stories noting how wonderful it is to ski in Telluride, especially since it isn’t overcrowded. Come back, Little Sheba, come back....
Posted by oldirishpig on 2007 07 26 at 07:26 AM • permalink“It’s huge, unbelievable,” said Telluride Mayor John Pryor. “Ski groups are canceling for the winter. Hundreds of people are bailing. The (town) Web site is flooded with people saying they’re canceling their vacations here.”
This ass hat sounds positively thrilled, of what should be slalom days for Telluride.
Highlight of the TV year last night in Blighty, look out for it
Top gears race to the north polenull
plenty of polar bears, not any lakes of water, and plenty of ice still left, and Al Bore gets a slap at the end (yep on th Beeb)..all in a Hilux
fantastic!
"Unbelievable”? Now who’s out of touch with reality?
Posted by nofixedabode on 2007 07 26 at 07:53 AM • permalinkAlong a similar line
Republican Congressman Are “Jihadists”?
And while Democrats rebuff Republicans and their accusations of shutdown politics, the majority is throwing some brickbats of its own.
“They’ve been stalling,’’ said John W. Olver, D-Mass., chairman of the House Transportation-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee. “They are nihilists. They are jihadists.”
It doesn’t even make any sense. Which, come to think of it — when you realize he comes from a majority party that just doesn’t get this whole war thing we’re in — makes complete sense.
Me thinks that John W. Olver, D-Mass, isn’t the sharpest pencil in the box, but then he is from Kennedy-land.
Sounds like Telluride was astounded at how many of those nice people who come and blow great wads of cash to slip down a mountain disagree with them.
Odd, innit, how often lefties are astounded by discovering not everyone agrees with them?
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 07 26 at 08:14 AM • permalink#33 Ash_
Why thank you, :)Please pass the Holbrooks and beer.
I do wonder if people are starting to get the raging sh*ts with all of the Bush / Howard hating that they see? Because there seems to be a lot of my
friendsaquaintances who are pretty disillusioned with the Kruddster? Is there a pattern forming in the US as well?#40 Consider them passed, 185600.
I know I get the sh*ts with the Bush/Howard hating. I have a couple of problems with it.
1. They are democratically elected leaders, chosen by the people to govern the people.
2. You will never convince me that it is appropriate for you to dislike someone’s policies when you act like a two year old throwing a tantrum.
3. If you disagree with Bush or Howard, don’t vote for them.
4. It’s fine that some people don’t like them, but can’t they slight their attacks using something like policies, rather than physical features?
5. I’m sure there’s more.
That’s great news. A more preciously rich, liberal and environmentally self-righteous place could scarcely be found between Malibu and the Hamptons; a lovely town high in the mountains, but exactly the sort of liberal bubble town where they’d take a stand like this believing it would have no consequences for themselves, only to learn the hard way that not everyone shares their exquisite views. Ha, ha, ha.
Telluride’s town council votes to impeach the President?
Perhaps Bush should issue an executive order to ban skiing in Telluride. Then we’ll see who rediscovers the 10th Amendment.
P.S. Leftists have never liked American-style federalism—separation of powers by level of government—because it impedes their establishment of a nanny-police state.
Posted by Rittenhouse on 2007 07 26 at 09:26 AM • permalinkThis is a classic example of “liberal creep.”
Telluride used to be a nice, rustic seasonal ski town. Then all the urban trendoids started flocking there from LA and the East Coast to escape the urban dunnies they’d made of their own cities… and carried right on with the self-righteous, self-indulgent policies that ruined their previous homes.
I will bet you cash money, sight unseen, that the majority of the Telluride city council are either newcomers or in the real estate/development trade catering to newcomers.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 26 at 10:21 AM • permalinkMove that the town council of Telluride be impeached on the grounds of gross negligence, to wit, the passage by said town council of a resolution calling for the impeachment of President George Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney, the self-same resolution leading to severe damage to the local economy, which damage would have been foreseen by council members had they exercised the normal standard of care consistent with the proper execution of their duties and responsibilities as elected officials. Second?
(wronwright hestitates to second a motion aired by paco. Last time he seconded one, paco had already called it a passed motion. Causing a bit of embarrassment and hazing at the pub later that night)
Oh, hell with it.
Yes, I second it. Little fuckers.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 07 26 at 11:40 AM • permalink#51: Bravo, Wronwright! Now, the vote. I vote “Aye”.
And incidentally, if the town council of Telluride can resolve to impeach Bush, I see no reason why the Comment Academy can’t resolve to impeach the Telluride town council. We will go on from there, impeaching town councils, mayors, governors, entire legislatures (bicameral and unicameral), parliaments . . . even caliphates! Mead for everybody!
Ash,
Everyone gives an exemption to an expectant lady. You can do no wrong.
On the other hand, everyone at the pub kept making motions for another pint of bitter and asking me to second it. After they already drank it. I don’t mind good natured ribbing. It’s the HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW that got to me.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 07 26 at 11:56 AM • permalinkpaco,
With the exception of a few misguided ideas (such as throwing a funeral parade dress rehearshal in April for Jimmy Carter, down Pennsylvania Ave., including a roasted peanut cart and monkey, a Mr. Peanut float, and the University of Georgia marching band), I usually agree with you. My only exception is the “Mead for Everyone!” statement. Let’s not lose our heads.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 07 26 at 12:05 PM • permalinkWronwright: Yeah, I guess that Jimmy Carter business was a bit premature. I’m wondering if the wake for the John Edwards presidential campaign featuring a $10,000-per-hour barbershop quartet and handouts of free Topsy Tail products may be a little over the top, too.
See, that’s the downside to being a pompous, self righteous ass. Not everyone is as impressed with you as you are.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 07 26 at 12:34 PM • permalink“I have seen the brutality of war that turns nice young men into barbarians.”
So have I....and I’m not a freaking barbarian…
signed,
LotharPosted by Old Tanker on 2007 07 26 at 12:50 PM • permalink#48 I have! I’ve seen the Robot Chicken version too. Youtube version is still there.
Posted by Richard Cranium on 2007 07 26 at 01:05 PM • permalink#64: Ok, the aye’s are above the no’s. Motion carried. The Telluride Town Council is to consider itself impeached, instanter. Procedures to formally try individual members on charges of gross negligence and to effect removal from office will be formulated by a committee consisting of me. Who’s got the rope?
You know “Telluride” is the Ute Indian word for wingbat.
Posted by papertiger on 2007 07 26 at 04:17 PM • permalink#68) All in favor of stoning the punster....
Posted by nofixedabode on 2007 07 26 at 04:27 PM • permalinkIf you’re going to impeach Telliveryrude, then in all justice, you must impeach the city councils of Seattle and San Francisco and all the other bunch of asshats who think their job is to ride bandwagons--and think it is unimportant to pass petty asshat resolutions.
So moved. Any seconds? (If ya got the power, use it, right? Isn’t that the lefty motto?)
"If you’re going to impeach Telliveryrude, then in all justice, you must impeach the city councils of Seattle and San Francisco...”
O.K. But, I think tactical nuclear weapons would be a more permanent solution.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 07 26 at 07:12 PM • permalinkIt was in Telluride that I was made an honoury member of the Birmingham Alabama Ski Club. I was staying in the New Sheridan Hotel (which Butch Cassidy used to drink in before he did his first holdup down the road) and was kept awake on the first night by gays running up and down the corridors giggling. There was also some creature outside howling every 20 minutes. I eventually looked outside to find that it was a husky tied up to a bench. At a social gathering of the Birmingham Alabama Ski Club, I mentioned that it sounded like one of the gays was outside sodomising a dog. A bloke with a Lonesome Dove-type moustache prompted inducted me into the club. I wear the armband and badge with pride.
#78 1.618 This is a work of feeling, of expressive celbration of the Titanic-like majesty of a media power in its dying days.
I suggest that you supplement the comment policy with a comma policy. I interpret the price in the African way, as nineteen comma nine nine etcetera dollars. This is an opportunity to buy a nine-figure artwork for two figures, and I am on it like Phil Adams on a truffled refugee in chardonnay roux. Do you take Paypal?
#77 - kept awake on the first night by gays running up and down the corridors giggling
I was sure that was a typo until I read further. You must have a keen ear for the footstep or were they mincing!?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 07 26 at 09:30 PM • permalink#49, interesting notion Paco.
Two NSW councils here have also decided to comment on/participate in international politics, by deciding to partner their municiPALIties with terrorists. ie Leichhardt council with Hebron, marrickville council withj Bethlehem, both current strongholds of Hamas.
There is a strong Arabic/Palestinian/Lebanese contingent in these municiPALIties.
Nice to know that local taxes are being spent on terrorist subsidies.Posted by carpefraise on 2007 07 27 at 03:07 AM • permalink#52 Ash, just shows that you shouldn’t boast about passed motions in places where they seek only to drink the impossible drink.
Pass it on.
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 07 27 at 03:10 AM • permalink#60, Paco, Wronwright - I’m guessing that Jimmy Carter’s birth was premature - ‘twould explain a lot.
Posted by carpefraise on 2007 07 27 at 03:12 AM • permalinkDaveS—Schtum und schuss, ja? More likely schtum und schusse, scheisskopf…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 07 28 at 02:33 AM • permalinkAmong the community members endorsing the resolution was Phil Miller, a veteran of World War II who was wounded in the Philippines.
Fortunately, those crappy little 6.5 mm rounds don’t hurt much, even when, like Phil here, you take a couple to the head.
Posted by baslimthecripple on 2007 07 29 at 02:21 PM • permalink
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